At a ceremony on Monday, FAMU interim president Larry Robinson talks about the steps the school has taken over the past year in an effort to end hazing.

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Brandon Cunningham is the president of a group that - for the time being - can't even hold official meetings.

Cunningham, president of the Florida A&M University Marching 100, said his group's nearly yearlong suspension in the wake of the hazing death of drum major Robert Champion has given student-musicians plenty of time to reflect. Remembering, he said, is the key to not repeating the past.

Monday night, one year to the day since Champion died, Cunningham and a small group gathered in the Grand Ballroom on FAMU's campus to remember Champion and review the university's progress since the ...